The Ties of The Strength of Weak Ties
This project visually describes the importance of Granovetter’s 1973 paper: The Strength of Weak Ties (SWT), one of the most cited papers in the social sciences in the last fifty years. I visually describe features related to the influence of this paper during three different time spans: 1973 - 1980, 1990 - 1997, and 2007 - 2014.
Mark Granovetter
From 1973 to 2018, the total number of citations to SWT is about 48500.
Their citations per year increased 29 times from 1980 to 2010.
Some disciplines where it is cited:
All those are very beatiful graphs.
All those are very beatiful graphs.
All those are very beatiful graphs.